U2 360 Cardiff, August 22, 2009

Tonight in Cardiff, Wales U2 play the last show of this European leg of the U2360 tour for an estimated 70.000 audience. The band last played Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on June 29 on the Vertigo tour. Support bands are Glasvegas and The Hours.

Walesonline has some outside stadium reports and for tonight’s occasion, U2log.com’s editor-in-chief has promised to go absolutely mental on the twitter updates and maybe even throw in some live audio feeds.

Photo gallery at Walesonline, who provided great live (!) coverage including some hig res photo’s: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Setlist:

1. Breathe
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Magnificent
5. Beautiful Day (Land of our fathers & Blackbird snippets)
6. Mysterious ways
7. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Stand by me snippet)
8. Stay (Far Away So Close)
9. Unknown Caller
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. City Of Blinding Lights
12. Vertigo
13. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (remix)
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Oliver’s Army snippet)
15. Pride
16. MLK (dedicated to Pamela Hunter, friend of the band, who is ‘fighting for her life’)
17. Walk On
18. Where The Streets Have No Name
19. One (Tutu intro)
20. Bad (40 snippet)
21. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
22. With Or Without You
23. Moment Of Surrender

Pic via U2gigs
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The Edge: Great value out of my birthday

Bono: “His birthday started in Poland….burned down several small towns in France, and then came to Zagreb….”

Edge: “My fellow bandmates actually get great value out of my birthday.”

But the actual star of this MSNBC-item of course is Alma from Sarajevo:

And here’s the complete ten minute interview:

U2 fan’s Forty-five seconds of fame …

Talk about passion….but 360°?

Must feel odd by the way, five stewards all for yourself …

U2 360, London August 15 2009

Second and last show in London’s Wembley stadium tonight. Newspapers reviewed the first show as “a qualified triumph for vaulting ambition“, “with a sound so hissy that it might as well have been coming from a clapped-out transistor radio” (more reviews in our lifestream).

Support acts of tonight are The Hours and Glasvegas and during a last minute soundcheck the band played New Year’s Day and Until The End Of The World.

Among tonights attending celebrities are Kevin Spacey (in the royal box), Lars Ulrich, Jimmy Page, Robert Downey Jnr and (the inevitable) Neil McCormick.

Reports are the roof is opened further than previous night, which benefits the sound.
When the last notes of tonights show fade out U2 will have played before an estimated 1.600.000 people in 21 gigs, with three more European shows to go…

The setlist gets a bit of a mix-up with the inclusion of UTEOTW, New Year’s Day and Stay:

1. Breathe [video]
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Get On Your Boots [video]
4. Magnificent
5. Beautiful Day (“Here comes the sun” and “London Bridge is falling down” snippet) [video]
6. Until The End Of The World (Break on through snippet) [video]
7. New Year’s Day [video]
8. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Stand by me snippet) [video] [snippet]
9. Stay (Far Away So Close) [video]
10. Unknown Caller
11. The Unforgettable Fire (A Day Without Me snippet) [video]
12. City Of Blinding Lights [video]
13. Vertigo [video]
14. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight remix
15. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17. MLK [video]
18. Walk On [video]
19. Where The Streets Have No Name [video]
20. One
21. Bad (Fool to Cry and “40″ snippets) [video]
22. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
23. With Or Without You
24. Moment Of Surrender [video]

Before they play Stay Bono tells the crowd Joe O’Herlihy has buried one of Edge’s guitar picks in the foundation of Wembley stadium when he was visiting the building site…

Big thanks to the Editor-in-chief of U2log and her fabulous live feeds!
All video links courtesy of u2gigs.com/u2006com

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U2 360, London August 14, 2009

U2 bring their 360 production into London for the first of two shows. Tonight Wembley stadium will welcome its biggest crowd ever, with 88.000 people attending (former record holders: Rod Stewart in 1995 and Foo Fighters in 2008, both played in front of 83.000 people). Total attendance over two shows is estimated 170.000.

Mysterious Ways and Your Blue Room were played in full during soundcheck, as well as fragments of Beautiful Day and Get On Your Boots.

Support acts for this first night are The Hours and Elbow.

Among the celebrity guests spotted in the star studded capital are Noel Gallagher, Lars Ullrich, Richard Curtis, Bill Nighy, Roman Abramovich, Will Champion, Brian Eno, Paul Greengrass & Neil McCormick.

For the second time the Bishop Tutu intro is played before One instead of Streets and Mysterious Ways makes a suprise appearance as closer of the ‘main’ set

Setlist:

1. Breathe
2. No Line on the Horizon [video]
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Magnificent
5. Beautiful Day (with “London calling” intro, “London Bridge is falling down” & Blackbird snippet) [video]
6. Elevation
7. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Moving on up snippet) [video]
8. Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
9. Unknown caller
10. The Unforgettable Fire [video *]
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Vertigo (Aqcuiesce snippet)
13. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (remix) (Two Tribes and O Come All Ye Faithful snippets)
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Rock The Casbah snippet) [video *]
15. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
16. MLK
17. Walk On (You’ll Never Walk Alone snippet)
18. Where the streets have no name [video *]
19. One (Tutu intro)
20. Mysterious ways (tiny snippet of Norwegian wood) [video]
21. Ultra Violet (Light My Way) [video]
22. With Or Without You [video *]
23. Moment of Surrender (dedicated to Brian Eno, “a national treasure”) [video]

All video courtesy of the great u2006.com, except * by Liamjd2008.

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It might get loud exclusive clip

Tomorrow, August 14th, the documentary “It might get loud“, featuring The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, will hit theatres across the US (check for dates). No news on release date across Europe as yet, but U2tour.de has reported the German release will be on august 27.

Billboard put this exclusive clip of Edge and Dalas Schoo fiddling with effects on their website:

U2360 on Google earth

Maybe this will tell us where these stages will be built in 2010:

http://www.u2.com/news/title/google-earth

U2360 tour architect Mark Fisher & his team at Stufish have come up with a 3d model of all three U2360 stages (Red, Green and Blue), which will be placed in all stadiums the band are playing in this tour (in Google Earth that is…).

Check this site to see if your stage is already built and if you get to see the green, red or blue ‘steel’.

U2360 3D model stage in Croke Park Dublin:

U2360 Sheffield broadcast

According to the site IloveU2ontheradio.com the entire set from Don Valley Stadium Sheffield will be broadcast live on British radio Thursday 20th August.

Check the link to find out which radio stations will carry the broadcast, no information on international (internet) broadcast as yet.
(via U2tour.de)